not that great

Adrian Fox

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:06:00 +0000

From This Town Sucks

Tyers drain.

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:50:00 +0000

featuring Tom Walsh

Duncan Ewington photo.

Self props

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:21:00 +0000

For whatever reason, Cooper decided to put me as the December calender babe.
This photo was taken in Sydney a month or so ago. The thumbs up is from Flagz.
Click here to choose the size which suits your screen.

So good.

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:01:00 +0000

The Hundreds.

Jereme Rogers

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:56:00 +0000

You quit skateboarding to make this?!?

BMX BANDITS

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:10:00 +0000

The future.

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:14:00 +0000

Jason Dill

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:17:00 +0000

He has an interview on 48 blocks and its generally interesting. I'm not sure I could handle him personally, but I'm a huge fan of his skateboarding.
I STILL don't have a camera, so you have to put up with reading about stuff I'm interested in. I'm sorry it sucks, and I feel bad about it, but I dont want to buy another cheap camera and I don't have enough money to buy what i want just yet.

Cooper Brownlee

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:59:00 +0000

Cooper's Dad builds custom Harley Davidson parts and this is his 1942 Harley Davidson 750cc WLA. His Dad's love for motorcycles isn't a mid-life crisis deal like most Harley Davidson owners, its a life long dedication to the freedom motorcycles can bring.

I’ve been riding with Cooper for the last couple of years, and in that time I’ve found him to be one of the most motivated people I know. Any hour of the day he is either out riding, searching for spots, shooting photos, filming, working on his magazine, doing artwork for Colony, as well as replying to the 24 msn windows that seem to always be open on his computer.
If the option was available on the Census forms we filled out every year, I’m sure he would put ‘living the dream’ as his occupation because that’s exactly what he is doing. Other than getting angry at himself for not half cabbing over a drain on the weekend, its very rare to see Cooper negative towards anythingbecause whether he is working at his computer, riding a school in the suburbs or driving across the country at night punching the steering wheel to his favourite xhardcorex anthems, you know he wouldn’t want to be doing anything else.
Since Cooper has his hands in so many projects, he has started a site, One Love One Life, to showcase everything he does and give people a chance to see some of his favourite pieces of work.

Cooper also just emailed through an interview he has on the DigBMX website. Dig is the best BMX magazine in the world, so its a huge honour for anyone to be interviewed by them.

DANE BURMAN HYPE

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:42:00 +0000

Dane Burman has a part in the new Zero Video.

DANE BURMAN FOR THRASHER AND SLAM SOTY!!!!

Simon sent me this video.

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:21:00 +0000

(I've broken another camera, so I don't have any new photos..Sorry)

On Sunday we were riding with the guys from Western Australia, when we were asked by some random girls if we could all get into her car as they needed to fit as many people as they could in a vehicle for a scavenger hunt. As we are very helpful young men, we all climbed in and spent a few minutes squashed up in this car whilst everyone else laughed. We got out and they thanked us for our efforts, and off they went.
On Monday or Tuesday Simon sent me a facebook message saying these girls involved in this scavenger hunt were his friends and that their was video on youtube, which is below.

I go to Sydney tomorrow for Halloween Jam and general riding around. It should be fun.

Another, yes another Cinelli colab.

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:31:00 +0000

Heist always put on great parties, so its worth heading down there.

WHats up with the 650 wheel on the front though?! IS IT 4 DA BAR SPINZZSZ5?!

Heron Island..again.

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:07:00 +0000

Lauren took a ridiculous amount of underwater photos whilst we were at Heron Island months ago. This is obviously us, everyone looks the same underwater.

you only need to stick your head under the water a little to see everything.
The fish just go about their business, i figure they are used to tourists like us gawking at their everyday behaviours.

This clam is pretty small, but there was a HUGE one when we went out on the dive boat. Its so tempting to stick your hand in there to see if it would actually close on your.

I was super hyped to see turles. Since the early 1950s, it has been illegal to ride on turtles. they even had signs.

fuck yeah, Heron Island.

The Age

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:51:00 +0000

featuring Chad Muska and Peter Smolik

stolen from note to self.

Pip Smith

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:55:00 +0000

stolen from some random facebook.

How artistic.

Pip shreds.

Let's Get Mystical

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:06:00 +0000

I wrote a review of Mutiny Bikes newest dvd, Let's Get Mystical.
You can read it here, or just continue reading as it is copied and pasted below. It is pretty long for a bmx dvd review, but sometimes you need more than 144 characters to voice your opinion.

Mutiny - Let's Get Mystical.
(If you are between 13-17 and your attention span doesn't last long enough to read a few paragraphs go straight to the bottom for the shortened review)
I like Mutiny. I have never actually purchased any of their products, but everything they do I have nothing but praise for. I like their previous DVD and web video releases, well designed t-shirts (which they also print on American Apparel), shredding team and even little details like 20.666inch sized frames.
Cooper gave me Let's Get Mystical to review and I figured I wouldn't be doing it any justice watching it on a laptop, so off to JB I went to get a TV. An hour or so later and I'm all set up to watch Let's Get Mystical. My first observation of this video is the lack of parts; the sections are split into geographical location. This is great because you can put it on and get a Whitman’s Sampler of riding, but if you want to watch a Randy Taylor part before you go to the park and do some nose manuals, this might not be the video for you.
Mutiny's previous release, Stoked On Being Pumped, was applauded for its use of HD filming of awesome riding instead of great HD filming of mediocre riding (Odyssey's Electronical). This is continued with Let's Get Mystical which is great to see, it’s also good to see the use of a steady cam for a lot of the footage which has not been utilised too much in bmx videos previous. Some of the double angles look like they have been filmed on a vx2100 or similar, as the footage isn't as crisp as the HD stuff, but you can't expect a company to carry around two HD cameras, so I'll let the quality difference slide. There is also the usual arty footage of bridges and cities, which is fine. It’s not overloaded like some videos, so it gets my approval.
It is hard to highlight a specific banger for each person due to the lack of individual parts. I have watched this DVD 5 times already and each view reveals something awesome I completely missed the previous times around. Josh Bedford shows his usual awesomeness in the England section, whilst Matt Roe does a sweet over pedal slide on the edge of a drain spine (very similar to the drain spine in Canberra). I have a small place in my heart for Hanson Little because he rides a chrome bike and has a beard, the fact that he pedals flat out at everything could also play a part in my attraction to his riding. He does a manual up and over a north shore see-saw (google it if you don't know what north shore is) then 360 out pretty early on in the video that I liked, also a gap off a ledge, over a gap then down some stairs which I'm sure would look ten times bigger in real life. For the trail dogs out there, the Mutiny team ride a whole heap of trails through out, which is always good to see. I'm no expert on trails, and I'm fairly sure my last two bikes have never seen dirt except for cutting through a park when I ride home from the city, but I can appreciate the time and effort it takes to groom trails and also to be able to shred the hell out of them. Kick outs galore and hitting berms at super sonic speed with minimal X games tricks, the good type of trails footage.
The soundtrack only has one rap song, so Marnold automatically doesn't like it, but personally I'm down for the indie pop music that is played throughout the video. My girlfriend told me to write that the soundtrack is mellow, which it is, but I'd much rather something soothing than a wild break down song where all I can think about is how many ninjas I need to kill before I can reach awesome scene status. I'm sure if you were trying to impress a cute art girl from your university, you could put this DVD on purely for the soundtrack (the arty scenery footage would be beneficial to your cause also), chances are she will love one of the bands and she'll be yours forever…or at least the next half an hour.
I don't know if I'm the only one that likes this, but a good credits section can make or break a video. After all the serious riding clips, it is always nice to have a bit of footage of people goofing around, homeless dudes talking shit and all the other stuff that makes riding street so awesome. Add this footage to a nice upbeat song that makes you smile and you’ve got a few minutes of fun that can sometimes be better than the actual riding. The credits on Let's Get Mystical are not better than the main riding sections, because that is great, but it’s definitely up there on the leader board in terms of great credits footage.
Included in the extras are a few Mutiny web edits, which are always great to see in their original quality. As great as it is to see edits on Vimeo the day after they are filmed, nothing compares to seeing them on a TV connected to your surround sound for the full viewing experience. You can’t emulate that when you're hunched over a laptop. The Randy Taylor edit is great; I find it ridiculous that someone can use footage of that calibre in a throwaway web edit.
The only section of this video I don't like in Let’s Get Mystical is the epic slow mo dark skate park section. Personally this bores me to tears as you can just go to Camberwell and Box Hill to see the same riding, and the filming itself is not completely amazing either. It is fairly short, but it is the only section where I have thought about pushing skip on my new remote control.
So in summary, if you love mutiny you should buy this DVD as it features the team riding great places and showing why they are well respected within bmx. Even though there is a lack of individual parts, I do believe there is enough to keep anyone interested for the full DVD, or even just a section before you head out riding for the day. As easy as it is to wait for someone to upload it to a torrent, I think its worth spending the $30 on a DVD so you can watch it on your TV with your friends, and also to support a company willing to put the time, effort and money into releasing a quality film on DVD. I’m sure they make no money from DVD sales.

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Mutiny in general
Filming
Riding is all killer, no filler.
Soundtrack
Credits

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No individual parts

- 7/10

Heron Island

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:27:00 +0000

Lauren took a heap of photos when we went snorkelling at heron island. I have scanned a couple, but havent resized too many yet. Here is a photo of me chillin by Turtle Bay.
Heron Island was awesome. Everyone should go there, but maybe not all at the same time.

Chad Muska HYPE

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:31:00 +0000

Memory Card Failure

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:45:00 +0000

means I dont have any photos of the following;
- Moving into my own little apartment.
- Rob's birthday party featuring pigeons.
- Hanging out with my Mum, Nanna and Sister.
- Beardo's river side birthday bbq.
- Christina's many venues birthday.
- Breaklunch with Lauren.

Sorry.

FocalPointBMX Issue 18

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:26:00 +0000

Jerry Hsu

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:23:00 +0000

I'm all about epic covers at the moment.

Bag of Suck

Happy Birthday Max

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:12:00 +0000

On Thursday I had to visit Max at his studio to get some repairs done to my Jeans. Joey from downstairs was also there to get measured up for some customs.

On Friday it was Max's birthday party at his newish residence. We were all discussing how this massive wooden peace sign was hanging from the wall when Max advised us it was made of cardboard. There is a photo on Tom Walsh's facebook of him next to it to confirm how massive this thing was.

Poncho Poncho man. People get super hyped when they put this poncho on. I hear it used to be Prior's, so that could be the reason.

Chris is back from Canada and working again already. He said it wasn't as much of a holiday as he thought it was because Prior was there for the last months. Welcome back.

The birthday boy! Its not his birthday until Wednesday, but its always good to hang out in a backyard around a fire with some great people. I hope you had a good party Max.

Tree and I were reading Made For Skate, which documents skateboarding footwear history. Its was amazing how many awesome shoe companies have come and gone. Tree said "Dude! remember the muskas with the stash tongue, those were amazing" and then we turned the page...

Saturday morning Lauren and I went to the cafe across from my house for breakfast. They make really simple, but amazing pancakes. And they actually cook them properly and not leave them doughy on the inside. I hate that. Lauren needed her energy as she was off to parklife.

I went riding down at docklands for the whole day. It was a great day to be out.

Every week there seems to be new buildings going up at docklands. This one has been there for a few months but I had never seen the wall garden before.

The only thing they are pulling down at Docklands is the poor mans London Eye. I didnt even get to go on it.

After a few conversations and emails via a track bike forum, it came to my attention that the brand manager for Farmers Union lives around the corner from me. I went to his house and got this tshirt. Its a promotion for a new release in South Australia, as seen on the back.

It was raining when I dropped Lauren off at her house, but it was a great day when we got to Rosebud for some Jam. Gil and Polly even went swimming at the beach. This was on Sunday

This local did a backflip from the in out thing. He also had a gold spray painted leg, and I didnt see him ride after this.

I move house this Friday. I'm pretty excited.

Stay safe.

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:49:00 +0000

The roads are dangerous.

Jacqueline Hau

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:25:00 +0000

Running this modelling shit.

Geoff Rowley

noreply@blogger.com (notthatgreat) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:27:00 +0000

Wallride 5050.

Extremely Sorry hype.